Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 10 May 2020, 05:03 am Print
Tehran/Xinhua: The Iranian health ministry announced 1,383 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 107,603, official IRNA news agency reported.
There were also 51 new deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 6,640, Kianush Jahanpur, head of Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, was quoted as saying.
Jahanpur put the number of recovered people at 86,143, saying that 2,675 patients are still in critical condition and under treatment.
So far, 586,699 lab tests for COVID-19 have been carried out in the country, he noted.
Iran announced its first cases of COVID-19 on Feb. 19.
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